Genevieve Bell - Intel's Intrepreter

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Genevieve Bell is the Director of Intel's User Experience Research. She's an Australia anthropologist who brings stories from the world back to the tech firm Intel in order to shape and influence technology development.

Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist.

She studies people; what we do, how we interact, how the culture we're part of affects our behaviour.

But she doesn't work for a university, she works for a company, the giant semiconductor maker, Intel.

It's her job to make sense of the world for a bunch of highly technical computer engineers who are trying to invent the future.

Genevieve Bell is based in Oregon, on the West Coast of the US, which is a long way from Canberra and some of the remote parts of the Northern Territory, where she grew up.